How successful was Alexander II’s Edict on Emancipation of the Serfs in modernizing Russia in the years 1861-1881?

Alexander II was a liberator of the emperor, people of the contemporaries did not improve much, but he played one of the greatest reforms of Russian history: the release of slaves. Despite the humanitarian reform that seems necessary, his life has suddenly been completed after ten failed terrorist attacks. The main challenge Alexander II faced in his Russian modernization project is to fundamentally improve the lives of that subject without sacrificing the need for further reform that he could not meet It was to compromise the country with.

In 1855, Alexander II began to rule the Russian emperor, especially overseeing the period of political and social reform, centering on the agricultural liberation and censorship system in 1861. His successor, Alexander III (1881-1894), pursued policies on restraining and limiting public expenditure, continued to reform the land and labor. This is an era of population growth and important industrialization; nonetheless, Russia is still a big country country. Russia continued to expand the empire, occupied Caucasus, Tashkent, Samarkand. Diplomatically, this period began with the end of the Crimean war. Since it attempted to expand the influence on the European part of the retreat of the Ottoman Empire and to regain the entry of the Navy into the Black Sea, the Russian policy collided with other European powers, especially the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

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